Festivals
Step into a vibrant celebration of culture with The Skinny festival guide. We bring you the latest UK and international festival news; you'll find festival information, previews, reviews, features, and interviews.
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Edinburgh Fringe
Marijke van Warmerdam: First drop skinnyfest1
Somewhat radically in the world of contemporary art, Marijke van Warmerdam's First drop exhibition does not have an agenda. It appears to make no political s... Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Edinburgh Fringe
The Interview - SKINNYFEST 1
It's the future (or is it?) and the work-life balance has gone seriously wonky. Loving relationships are giving way to contracts drawn up by the state at a v... Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Talk Radio SKINNYFest 1
Nestled snugly in the steamy intestinal tract of the festival's newly inflated purple bovine, talk show host Barry Champlain (Phil Nichols) has a sweaty, ove... Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Edinburgh Fringe
SKINNYFEST 1 Pumpgirl
A great production of Abbie Spallen's new play, replete with country music, thick Northern Irish accents, car grease and fucking, this story is set in Armagh... Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Radio - skinnyfest 1
Radio is a story of the birth, life and death of one young man's American dream, all told in a perfectly manageable 45 minutes. As anti-Americanism is second... Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Petrol Jesus Nightmare #5 (In the Time of the Messiah) SKINNYFEST 1
The small amount of violence we see àshocking in its brevity and intensity àstems from religion, corruption and greed, which inside the house feel oddly disconnected from the war raging in the streets. Read more »| 14 Aug 2006
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Edinburgh Fringe
Past Half Remembered SKINNYFEST 1
Romantic comedy isn't generally a genre associated with early 20th centuryRussian history, but the company of NiE manage it beautifully. Therelationship betw... Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Blackwatch skinnyfest1
Superbly captures the essence of Scottish soldiers through the acting, accents, dialogue and humour. Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Janey Godley's 'Point of Yes' SKINNYFEST 1
After receiving widespread plaudits for "The Point of Yes", Glaswegian comic Janey Godley has now brought her one woman, two-character play to the fringe. Ch... Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Edinburgh Fringe
In Pursuit of Cardenio - SKINNYFEST 1
Ken Campbell is in search of Cardenio, Shakespeare's lost play. A theatrical black hole, it has little foundation other than tenuous links to passages from D... Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Imagine I Am Smiling - Skinnyfest 1
Imaginary Theatre Company are waiting. On a bench, deep in their cave venue, on a station platform somewhere, could be anywhere. Waiting for a train that mig... Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Diary of a Nobody review - SkinnyFest1
Well, this is What Happened To The Likely Lad who didn't fall feet first into a primetime BBC1 cop drama. While James Bolam pays the bills by playing the sam... Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Both sides of the bar. SKINNYFEST 1
Treat the unfolding ménage àtrios like a Ramsay Street love affair... Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Patrick Monahan review - SkinnyFest 1
As with jazz, it sometimes seems that some comedians have made a pact with the devil that enables them to tell a joke like nobody else but renders them not r... Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Luke Wright, Poet Laureate modified SKINNYFest 1
Before Justin, there was Robbie. And before the burgeoning performance poetry scene on this year's Fringe, there was Luke Wright. Previously of Aisle 16: Poe... Read more »| 14 Aug 2006